For the second time In4mation have paired up with Vans, but this time the collaboration brings us the extremely dope Chukka Low X In4mation. The sneaker comes in a blue colourway boxed with both standard red or ‘in4mation white’ laces. Released Dec12 in the in4mation Hawaii store and online. More pictures after the jump!

I want to recommend following shoes.

First: Keds.

Nike 6.0

customise your own NIKE 6.0 HERE

Odessa

Vans

Hypebeast.

Hypebeast.

Continuing the Blazer legacy are these canvas HUF Blazers. available in two different colorways, black and tan. They feature very minimal branding on the shoe, making it a very simplistic sneaker. Quantities are limited, so be for warned. Call 562-901-9949 for details.

Another sale is on the way right before XMas. Save money on all you favorite stuff….Stussy, Nike SB, Diamond Brand, Hellz Bellz and more…

Mike Bancroft 360 Flip, originally uploaded by CpPhotoNZ.

Mike Bancroft (3rd Place Mens Open) 360 Flip

More photos of the day.

Day Eighteen, 20th November 2009.

Day Twenty One, 23rd November 2009.

Day Twenty Five, 27th November 2009.

And I also regripped my longboard:

a.s. Zondag 29 November 2009 heeft sneakershop UNKNOWN (Alkmaar) koopzondag en is dan geopend van 12:00uur tot 17:00uur!

Moja mama je bila poslovodja v trgovini z obutvijo v Novi Gorici. Bilo so časi, ko sem bil še srednješolec. Njena trgovina je bila v neposredni bližini šolskih središč. Toda mladi v trgovino niso zahajali. Hodili so v Italijo. Pa smo debatirali, kaj je razlog. (To je bil moj prvi »svetovalni« projekt, ne da bi se tega sploh zavedal).

Brez velikega poglabljanja bi kdorkoli hitro ugotovil, da je ponudba za mlade neprivlačna in da je obenem to tržna priložnost, saj v celotni okolici ni enega samega ponudnika, ki bi nagovarjal to generacijo. Ok, naslednjo sezono torej pripeljemo nekaj ponudbe za mlade. Ne, ni dovolj samo nekaj, reče izkušenj polna mama. Mladi morajo imeti izbiro. Naročiti je treba mini kolekcijo. Pa je nastal mali kotiček znotraj trgovine s ponudbo za mlade. A prodaja žal ni bila uspešna.

Rezultatov ne moreš pričakovati takoj, treba je to spromovirati, vztrajati …. Pa tudi naslednjo sezono ni bilo zadovoljivih rezultatov (čeprav je bilo malo boljše).

Potem si rečeš, če želiš priti do rezultata je treba narediti korenito spremembo. Spremeniti je treba interier, prodajni servis, etc … Prodajalke stare štirideset let in več težko prodajajo najstnikom. Najstniki iščejo sebi enako okolje.  Apriori se odrekajo vsemu, kar diši po prežvečenem. Želijo si izgraditi svoj lasten imidž. In svoj dragocen denar (ja, ko si mlad, ti sto evrov pomeni celo bogastvo, sploh če nisi iz premožne družine), boš naložil v nekaj, kar ti res veliko pomeni in ga boš zapravil tam, kjer imaš zares občutek, da dobiš tisto, kar želiš.

Pa prideš do zaključka, da moraš mami reči, naj opusti idejo, da bo postala verodostojen ponudnik najstnikom. (Itak: če ni znala mene razumeti, valjda ne more razumeti niti mojih vrstnikov.)

Toda, ne glede, ali so najstniki tvoji kupci ali ne – najstniki so izredno pomemben tržni segment, sploh v modi. In nanje se začenjajo zelo profesionalno obračati velika imena. Pozornost bi vam želel usmeriti na tri primere:

Teen Vogue

Zakaj se je Vogue, eden izmed najbolj vplivnih modnih medijev spustil v ta tržni segment? Prikazuje trende, ki jih narekujejo Balmain, Louis Vuitton, Dolce&Gabbana in podobni modni guruji, katerih cenovna politika zagotovo ne nagovarja najstnikov. Toda, najstniki so za modo dovzetni. Iz leta v leto bolj.

Topshop, Urban Outfitters, Tally Weijl, Roxy, Vans, Swatch, so blagovne znamke, namenjene izključno mladim. Sledijo življenjskemu slogu najstnic in najstnikov, vsaka na svoj način. Nekatere so si v DNK zapisale glamur, druge neke vrste uporništvo. Bleščeči slog luksuza je mladim cenovno dostopen s Swarovski kristali.  Celo dizajner Marc Jacobs se z blagovno znamko Marc by Marc Jacobs  vse bolj približuje najstnicam. V poletni kolekciji je recimo bila torbico za samo 38 dolarjev (na fotografiji).

Najstniki so že danes pomemben tržni segment, jutri bodo pa to ključni kupci. Treba jih je negovati.

Patricia Field

Vsi poznamo modni slog iz nanizanke Seks v mestu. Izgradila ga je Patricia Field. Stilistka je postala vplivno ime v modi. Izgradila si je blagovno znamko. In kako jo kapitalizira? Da prodaja mladim, čeprav bi lahko ubrala popolnoma drugačno pot. Namesto, da bi koketirala z Guccijem, Jimmy Choojem in podobnimi, se gre se »co-branding« z Barbie. Pripravlja kolekcije, katerih estetika in cena je pisana na kožo najstnicam, kot lahko vidite iz spodnjega posnetka njene modne revije za kolekcijo pomlad-poletje 2009.

Tavi Gevinson

Njen blog Style Rookie je postal novi modni fenomen. Izza njega stoji 13-letnica iz predmestja Chicaga. Čez dan dijakinja, zvečer se prelevi v modno blogerko.

Tavi on Flickr

Tavi postaja prava modna zvezdnica. Letos je že sedela v prvih vrstah modnih revij na tednu mode v New Yorku, skupaj z vplivnimi novinarji, pevci in filmskimi igralci. Občuduje predvsem oblikovalko Rei Kawakubo, ki stoji izza blagovne znamke Comme des Garcons’ in v zahvalo jo je le-ta povabila kot častno gostjo na dobrodelno zabavo v Tokyo.

Zakaj bi se vodilne blagovne znamke ukvarjale s 13-letnico? Zato, ker njeno mnenje šteje.

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and today my shoes arrived. :]

look at the top of the box ;D
and i am very happy :] i like it..

and tomorrow concert.. i hope that will be good.

Just received new Vans shoes for the guys and girls last week including TNT II Mids and Mid Cups, a new Chukka Low Orange colorway, and some  new girls Forty-Four Hi and Wellsey Hi’s.

Hard to go wrong with Vans, strong skate heritage and great looking product.

Cardiel, TNT, AVE, Layton, ROWLEY. Best dudes in the biz are backing them.

Era and Authentic’s have been around for decades and are still some of the best sellers. Open any fashion magazine and your guaranteed to find Vans on the feet of some of the models. Celebs? You know US Weekly and all those other mags have tons of photos of all those pasty dudes from New Twilight Diaries or whatever it’s called wearing Vans too.

Dirtbag skaters also wear Vans.

Check out the pics below and read the descriptions stolen directly from the Vans site.

TNT II MID Watermelons (Green)
The TNT II Mid is one of our team riders’ most requested shoes when their boxes are being packed. This shoe features a sidestripe and great colorblocking options, which result in endless color variations. The clean look and paneling work perfectly in the mid-cut design, which offers increased ankle support.

Chukka Low Orange/White
The Chukka Low was designed by our skate team. The inspiration was based on shoes like the Authentic and the Chukka Boot, using Syndicate features and technology. Every season we’ll mix it up with different riders to showcase the creativity and diversity of the team. The shoe is bound to be a classic and spotlights the timeless style of Vans.

TNT II MID Cup Black/Dark Earth

The TNT II Mid Cup evolves Tony’s most successful shoe and one of the best in our line up. The BoardFeel XD cup version of TNT’s classic mid-cut is an incredible blend of heritage and technology for Vans. Functionally, the shoe is lightweight, durable, and thin enough so you can feel your board but not bruise your heels. This shoe features a sidestripe and great colorblocking options, which result in endless color variations. The clean look and paneling work perfectly in the mid-cut design, which offers increased ankle support. The cupsole provides increased support and durability, with all the style you’d expect from a rock star like TNT.

Showdown Checkerboard Grey
The versatile Showdown offers unmatched appeal, borrowing from vintage wrestling boot, the new wave styles of the early ’80’s, and classic skate shoe alike. Strap them all the way up, or fold them down to reveal the plush pink lining within. Sturdy design elements include a gusseted tongue detail, over-sized grommets, vulcanized construction, and a waffle rubber outsole.

Wellesley HI Warm Coffee
Cool ’80s punkish hi-top with fold down upper. Interior fabric is plaid. Padded footbed. Canvas and suede upper. Rubber waffle outsole.

Forty-Four HI Blue/Green

The Forty-Four is a sporty shoe with unusual pedigree, combining elements from 80’s pop and contemporary skate fashion; their hi-top silhouette and checkerboard uppers and laces provide a versatile look that lends itself to a variety of styles. It’s also built for comfort, including a padded tongue and collar, and a durable cupsole that provides increased foot support.

Come have a peek, grab a pair for your Friday night kit.

I thought of giving you one type of size pixel cars and this time it is Kuru Kuru or KK as people know them as.

Remember if you like any of these ask base maker for permission.

Land Rover Vogue By -Nismo-

Toyota Corolla E11 By Artrax666

Opel Calibra By szymi5

1976 Dodge Vans By Kalu

The checks seek to ensure that children are not transported in overcrowded vehicles recently.

CHENNAI: The traffic police and the Transport Department have launched a series of surprise checks of vehicles transporting schoolchildren in the city for compliance with various rules under the Motor Vehicles Act.

Sources in the Transport Department said they were checking all school buses to see if they were adhering to safety measures, such as adhering to seating capacity and colour code.

Joint Transport Commissioner T.Gunasekaran said the checks will continue. “In spite of the Supreme Court issuing guidelines to all school buses for safety measures of schoolchildren to avert accidents, the norms are being violated. School buses continue to cramp vehicles with children and engage drivers with little experience,” he said.

He said school buses would be checked for compliance with colour codes at the time of renewal of their fitness certificates.

On Thursday, in a surprise check of 351 school buses, the Transport Department issued check reports for 72 vehicles. Of these, three school buses were detained for plying without a permit and one bus for plying without a fitness certificate.

Also, four school buses were issued with check reports for carrying excess load and four other school buses were issued check reports for engaging unqualified drivers.

Additional Commissioner of Police (Traffic) M. Shakeel Akhter said he had instructed the traffic police to keep an eye on autorickshaws transporting schoolchildren. “We are also keeping a check on school students riding two-wheelers without a licence,” he said.

In the world of Mustaches we are all brothers. When traveling the world from time to time you come across a fellow mustached fellow! Here I am at the Vans store at Grapevine Mills meeting Tascar the Magnificent. Mustaches will bring peace or certain death either or.

Check out Tascar the Magnificent’ Art Work!

Showcased is a preview of the Vans Vault 2010 Spring/Summer program, this time offering a closer look into a set of Half Cab LX’s. 4 different colorways were implemented, all featuring suede uppers with Black laces and Black highlights. Look for these to drop at Vault stockists in March/April of next year.

That’s right people PURPLE FRIDAY! Mention this add and receive 20% off your purchases on PURPLE FRIDAY at PURPLE SKUNK, you know the skateshop in San Francisco with the biggest variety of skateboards of ALL types? Although if you want to keep it Black, we got BLACK LABEL, BLACK helmets, BLACK Vans and Adidas shoes, Black Bones wheels, BLACK trucks, BLACK T-shirts & hoodies, and if that’s not enough we’ll play some BLACK SABBATH while you shop! Sound good ? Come on down on Friday for PURPLE FRIDAY at PURPLE SKUNK!!!

It looks like Supreme will be continuing its partnership with Vans, this time utilizing the understated V-106 model, another classic vulcanized offering from Vans. The shoes are featured in 4 different colorways, including two solid suede renditions and a set of canvas camouflage joints, both boasting Supreme’s original camo print. The suede models will retail for ¥12,600 (Approx. $140 USD) while the other two see a ¥11,550 (Approx. $129 USD) price tag. I would totally pick up a pair of the orange boys.

Fiat have just unveiled their latest commercial vehicle, the Fiat Doblo.

The new Fiat Doblo will be on sale in the UK from early next year in both van and budget people carrier form.

The Doblo van is going to be a rival for the likes of the Citroen Berlingo and the Renault Kangoo – and Fiat are already claiming that it has plenty of space inside – even with the seats up!

There will be a choice of four engines to choose from and the environmentally aware will be pleased to hear that Stop Start comes as standard.  Stop Start is a piece of innovative technology that turns a car’s engine off whilst it is still, i.e. at the traffic lights, thus preserving you some fuel. Stop Start is fast featuring on many vehicles.

Sliding behind the stage colors of CUT COPY at THE MASQUERADE in ATLANTA, GA, I followed Matt of MATT AND KIM to their Kim-decorated van for an interview after their opening set.

Both Kim and Matt are just as cheery in life as they are on stage. Kim was visiting with some of her old Atlanta friends, so Matt was kind enough to chat with me. We talked about the making of their music videos, pop-up posters, and their obsession with dogs. Most importantly, Matt taught me about the importance of having haters in your life.

Full Transcript: (Audio)

Nichole Bennett: Cool, I’m Nichole. I’m here with Matt, half of Matt and Kim. Thank you so much for joining us.
Matt Johnson: My pleasure.
NB: They just put on a rocking set here at The Masquerade in Atlanta, Georgia opening for Cut Copy. It was really rad.
MJ: This place is cool. It feels like warehouse style shows in Brooklyn.
NB: Did you know that each of the levels have a name?
MJ: I heard there was Heaven, Hell, and Purgatory.
NB: Yeah, you guys just played in Heaven.
MJ: Oh really? Yeah it was weird. We were handed all that press for The Haunting, this movie. I don’t know.
NB: You have a notebook?
MJ: I got a notebook! It’s a sweet deal, right? But they had a card that was about…last night we were over at The Drunken Unicorn…on one of the these cards on the back it said that this place was haunted and it’s been falling apart. I was like, “Oh damnit, we gotta go there tomorrow.”
NB: They always say that they are no longer going to have shows. They always say it’s going to collapse, and sometimes it feels like it might.
MJ: The way the equipment goes up and down is so bizarre. Did you see that lift? The way to get everyone’s stuff upstairs…there’s this weird, really janky thing that’s on two wires. I don’t know about that.
NB: So if you were to describe the story of Matt and Kim, or at least the Matt story, would it be a graphic novel or a pop up book?
MJ: I’d say pop-up book only because I’m much more familiar with pop-up books. Actually we’ve been very intrigued by pop-up books. One of the first projects Kim and I did together, before we even tried playing music was that we used to make rock show posters for our friends’ bands in New York that were all pop-up, that had pop-up elements. You could open windows or spin little dials and things like that, and they were all silkscreened. They were awesome except that they would get stolen the first day you put them up. They were a lot of work for the look.
NB: That would be cool for house shows.
MJ: Yeah, depending on the spot. We also didn’t realize that if you put posters up on the street in Brooklyn, it’s a crime. So the cops busted us the first poster.
NB: Man, I didn’t know that. I saw posters all over New York.
MJ: Yeah people, do it, but…
NB: Underground poster putter-uppers. Do you guys ever read your own reviews?
MJ: Well, to begin with, I did. Because when we first started getting reviews and things like that, I was very intrigued. But the thing is we’d get a good review…we’d get band of the week on some website or whatever and then the comments would be hundreds of just haters.
NB: Yeah, only haters comment.
MJ: Yeah those are the ones you want to read. You just want the drama. The nice ones are boring. But all the same, it’s weird because we put so much of ourselves and so much of our time, you know all of our time, into doing this. And it’s not just like hating on the band, it’s like hating on us. But it’s one of those things now. Now Kim gets upset when there’s not enough hate comments. Like on Brooklyn Vegan, it’s the most talked about bands that get the most hate. I realized this when I was looking at an issue of Spin magazine, and it was the reader-voted best and worst bands of 2007 maybe. The lists were almost exactly the same. I think My Chemical Romance was number one on it. They were reader voted best band and reader voted worst band. The list was like exactly the same. Whoever was talked about the most was the most hated and the most liked, whoever was talked about the second most… So, we actually saw a Katt Williams sketch or it’s his standup act. It was actually from here in Atlanta, and he talked about needing haters. “If you only have 15 haters now, you should try to have 20 by summertime.”
NB: I think I’m learning that too. It’s kind of weird the way the internet treats music. It’s kind of an A.D.D. musicality, where you’re like “I’m going to hop on the Hypemachine and see what’s popular this week.” But hate, that’s the key I guess.
MJ: I don’t know. We’ve gone and embraced it. But all the same, it kind of cuts a little deep for me. So I decided it would just be easier to not read it.
NB: How would you describe your sound to maybe a five year old?
MJ: To a five year old? Well, it’s funny because before the band, Kim was a nanny. At the time, I think they were three and four. Now they’re about six and five, but we still go and visit those girls all the time. They’re awesome. They’re the first thing that made me understand parenting. Like, why would anyone want to be a parent? And these two girls are just so cool. And they also love Matt and Kim. I don’t know…how would I describe? Parents come and tell me that they and their kids sing and dance to it. I think it’s funny because the parents like it, and they come to our shows and talk about their kids liking it. So, I think it’s like a sing-along dance party.
NB: That’s a good one. It’s one of the few bands like that.
MJ: Yeah, on the end of the first album, the last track is just us in the studio. I was sick, so I was taking nasal spray and other cold medicines just to keep my nose clear, and I was totally flying on a kite of cold medicine. But it’s just us talking because we were thinking of starting the album with…because we used to always start our shows with “This is Kim and I’m Matt, and we’re Matt and Kim.” But it’s that, and I swear or something. And Kim says, “You can’t swear, Chloe’s going to hear this.” Just because of those two girls she used to nanny she didn’t want us to swear on the album.
NB: Our radio listeners can’t see this, but we are in a magnificent super red van.
MJ: Super red yes!
NB: Oh, is that carpeted wall?
MJ: Oh yeah, that’s a pro job right there, carpeted these wall myself. Kim painted these candy stripes on the back.
NB: Yeah, this is one of the more fancy vans I’ve been in. What do you guys listen to when you’re driving around?
MJ: Well, if you notice, we do not have a CD player or any way to plug in an iPod. We don’t turn the stereo on. That’s a band rule. We don’t listen to music. Everyone has their own iPod. But if you have five people in the van, it becomes a source of a lot of anger having to listen to what other people like. So we decided when we bought this van that we were just not going to put a stereo in.
NB: That’s probably a really good rule. That’s one of the better rules I’ve heard.
MJ: Yeah, so we all listen to our own thing.
NB: What is your favorite dinosaur?
MJ: Dinosaur? I guess the stegosaurus is kind of rad, right?
NB: That’s a good one.
MJ: It’s pretty big. Wait, stegosaurus is the one that has the tail with all the spiky stuff on it?
NB: Yeah. It’s got spikes. I guess we talked about the internet earlier. I know the internet has played a big role in you guys getting your music videos up, which are really fun to watch by the way. Were they as fun to make as they are to watch or is there a lot of work going into that?
MJ: I don’t know. It depends on who you ask. If you ask me, I’d say “yes.” If you ask Kim, she’d say “no.” We just shot another video a couple of weekends ago before we went on tour for a song called “Lessons Learned,” but the last one that has come out was for “Daylight.” Every situation in that was like Kim’s most hated situation. We play inside a dumpster, and we were told the dumpster would be a clean dumpster. But that didn’t really mean clean as much as the large garbage was pulled out. There was this thick inch of grime on the walls, and she was just hating being in there. But if you watch, she’s smiling. There’s different forms of Kim smiling. If she’s very uncomfortable, she smiles. She’s happy, she smiles. When she’s terrified, she gets this crazy squeaky wheel laugh. We went to go see some horror movie in the theater, and as someone’s getting sliced and diced and chopped up—that stuff freaks her out—and she just started laughing hysterically. And people are like, “Who’s that messed-up girl laughing at this stuff?” Oh yeah, so she hated being in that dumpster. She hates getting water in her face. We played in the shower. Whenever she goes swimming—have you ever seen a cat try to swim?
NB: Yeah I hate that too.
MJ: They’re just trying to keep their head above water at all cost. She hated getting water in her face. She’s kind of claustrophobic. She hated being in there. Yeah, so it was her nightmare. Our “Yea Yeah” video was fun to shoot for the three and a half minutes that we actually shot it for. And then the six hours of cleaning up with weird stuff in our hair…it was just the grossest smell.
NB: You guys just came from Austin, Texas didn’t you? From South By Southwest?
MJ: Sort of. We’ve been to Austin twice in the last month. We started this tour with Cut Copy in Austin and then looped over to the west coast. We had a day off between Chicago and Toronto, and we were like “Days off are for weak people.” So we decided we would fly back down on that one day off for South By Southwest.
NB: Yeah, I was like “Where are they coming from?!”
MJ: And then we flew back up to Toronto. We flew Toronto to New York, then over to Boston. We had to drive over night back to New York. And then D.C. It’s been really crazy. But we had the day off yesterday. We just got to hang out in Atlanta.
NB: You guys are sticking around for a little while. There’s some Athens and some Asheville action going on.
MJ: Yeah, well we’ll be back and then we’ll be in the area. We go from here to Orlando, then Miami, then Tallahasee, then Gainesville. Then I think we’ll be back up.
NB: A lot of people skip Florida. I bet they’ll be really happy.
MJ: Yeah, it’s one of those things that to get to the tip is sort of out of the way. But you can also do a lot of shows in Florida. We’re excited to be where it’s warm. Like here.
NB: If Matt and Kim had a catchphrase, what would it be?
MJ: It would be “You can’t threaten me with a good time.”
NB: And I’ll leave you with this last question: If you could be any animal, what would you be?
MJ: I’d have to be a dog. Kim and I are both nuts about dogs. Even though we couldn’t have one because we live in an eight foot wide apartment in Brooklyn, and we travel nine months out of the year. But, we’ll go and get cups of tea and coffee and go to the dog park and just lurk.
NB: Like a child predator, but with dogs.
MJ: We don’t really know the policy. Like when Kim was a nanny, you’re not supposed to go into a playground unless you’re with a child. So are you not supposed to go in the dog park unless you have a dog? Yeah I think we’d both be dogs.